As Gully travels from setting to setting, use this area to post about the places that he goes. Also, think about how the mood of the novel shift as he changes settings.
The novel stars with him aboard the spaceship Nomad which I think was hit by a rocket or another spaceship. Anyways the ship is completely destroyed except for a tool locker room in which he tries to survive. I think the mood in this setting is very hurried, because he always has to hurry to get supplies or air. In other words its kind of like high speed traffic on the interstate. -Kyle Waite
After Gully leaves the spaceship Nomad, he is pulled in by a small asteroid-colony that call themselves "The Scientific People." Most of their asteroid colony is built from salvaged parts of old spaceships and wrecks that were found in space, like the Nomad. The mood changes into a more confused, lost sort of sense right in this part, and seems almost jumbled, just like the asteroid itself. - Christian Graham
I believe the setting is way ahead of its time. If it was written in the 1950's and the author Alfred Bester is talking about space and life on different planets and living in space, his imagination is very advanced. NASA didn't even get to the moon until 1967 I believe which means he is thinking ahead of the space program. How come NASA didn't read this book, we'd have probably gotten to the moon fifteen years ealier. -Nick Kratzer
I agree with nick, it's amazing how someone could have this much detail in how the future will be many years from now when at the time this book was written, we haven't even gone to the moon yet. Yet he is able to make everything seem so realistic and believable. -Justin Campbell
The transition from The Nomad to the Scientific People changed it from a survial tale, to a tale of more mystery, and an actually feeling beings to develop.- Alex Campbell
When Gully Foyle wakes up and the people who capture him tell him he is not who he thinks. They try to trick him. the mood may change because Foyle may not belive them but, it may change how the story plays out. -Aaron Gromiller
After he got picked up by the Inner Planets navy, he acts like he doesnt remember anything, and doesnt remember how to jaunte. So they put him in this class where its going to help you jaunte better, but he never goes. Then the leader, Robin Wednesbury, finds out where hes been going, and hes not to happy about it.-Erica Keim
at the beginning of the story when he was trying to survive it was like a survival story like as he gets food, water, air. then as he went to the asteriod place, the mood changed into like a mysterious scifi story. like as we awakes and has a wife ans they try to tell him he is a part of their society.--Dominic Spinazzola
The setting definitely changes the feeling of the book. The Nomad setting almost has you wanting Gully to find a way home. But when the Scientific People's asteroid comes up, its more of you just wondering what these people and this place are all about. -Jess Filegar
When Gully is in the hospital, the mood switches to more serious as we follow Gully's obsession in tracking the Vorga. He is more down to earth in how he acts and his decisions. He becomes more of a background character as he plans his attack on Verga and the spotlight is more on Presteign.
*Kayle Giarth*
In chapter 5, it starts out talking about one of Terra's deepest trenches, Gouffre Martel, where they hospitalize people. It describes how it is completely pitch black, and since the patients can't see where they are, they can't jaunte out. Here Gully Foyle is imprisoned, and he soon learns about blue-jaunting, where patients lose their minds and try to escape, killing themselves in the process. - Christian Graham
When Gully is hospitalized they try to make him forget everything about Vorga and Nomad using different techniques. They try putting him in a plain dark room with a projector that plays videos of horifying things. All he dreams about is vorga. Then they try to create him a new life and a new name, Geoffrey Fourmyle. This fails because he sees his reflection in Saul Dagenham's glasses. His face still has Nomad tattooed on his brow and a tyger face. He knew now that everything he thought had happened, really happened to him. - Sasha Cochran
While Gully is still getting hospitalized, he starts to hear Jiz hum,sing and speak to him. As soon as she says there is a way out, Gully gets excited, and they start to talk through a Whisper Line. They end up talking about everything that has happend in their lifes until now in their lifes. She helps him with his speech, and to use his brain insted of bombs. They end up falling in love. Then Dagenham comes to visit him, to give him another chance of telling him where Nomad is, but ends up Gully hammers his head with a flagston. From there he goes to Jiz's cell, and they excape.-Erica Keim
"Baker's Freak Factory occupied a round brick three-story building that had once been the roundhouse in a suburban railway yard before jaunting ended the need for suburban railroads." The downstairs holds Baker's zoo of "anatomical curiosities, natural freaks, and monsters brought, hired, kidnapped, abducted...The middle floor of the roundhouse contained bedrooms for post-operative patients, laboratories, staff rooms, and kitchens. the top floor contained the operating theaters." This part begins with the operation to remove Gully's tattoo, then the story gets dramatic with the most intense part of the book so far. -Bryant Sell
Response(Add-on)- Im adding on to Erica Keims statement. I agree with everything but during the escape they have to go though an underground tunnel which leads to a river under the earth. They walk for a long while through stagmites and stalactites until they can hear the river. An when the find it, Jiz falls into the water and Gully jumps in after her. They are swept down the river until they come to a small tunnel that is all under water with no air spaces. They have to travel through it in order to fully escape. This small tunner leads them out of Gouffre Martel and onto fresh grass outside. It takes them a few minutes to realize this but then they are very excited and kiss each other.
-Sasha Cochran
At the beginning of chapter 8, it talks about the four mile circus, which is to take place in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Once we figure out who Fourmyle of Ceres really is, it makes sense as to why he chose Green Bay. This is where Robin Wednesbury lived in the early chapters, and it seems that Gully is choosing to reappear there to look for her. - Christian Graham
Starting in chapter 9, Foyle travels to different cities as Fourmyle to celebrate at different New Years parties. The constant change in setting might be a little confusing and fast but it adds some extra excitement and wonder to the book.
-Jess Filegar
Response: I agree with Jess on the setting of chapter nine. At first I thought it was a little confusing, but I understand why he is doing it. Gully needs to keep his cover and is trying to find the passengers of Vorga T:1339 to understand why they just passed him by in space. I also agree that from going to place to place does keep the book exciting. -Catherine Averill
Response: I also agree with jess on this topic on the setting of chapter nine. It does tend to keep the book interesting and really make you pay attention to where they are going but as Catherine said Gully does want to try his hardest to see why the Vorga passed him up at the beginning of the book. Dylan
In the beginning of chapter ten it is talking about how the ball was so beautiful and dazzling. Also And it refers that the women wore gowns based off the 1920s and I think that is interesting for this book because it is so far in the future that the people/ characters still refer to the past that is over a 100 years ago.But then in the next paragraph they are auctioning off a robot/ anroid that is a girl to make it seem more like the book.-Catherine Averill
Response: I agree with you catherine if this book is set that far into the future why would they even mention something from the 1920s and then go into an auction and sell robots and androids which arent even present today. Dylan
Response 2: I also agree with Catherine. It was a very good move on the author's part, including culture of past centuries, maybe to remind us that its still the same world, just more high tech and very changed. -Jess Filegar
In the beginning to chapter eleven I think that the mood is very risky but fancy. It is risky because Gully is taking a huge risk being at the Presteign house and trying to keep his control so that his face will not show in front of him. It is fancy because it shows how rich Pristeign is and why he does not jaunte.- Catherine Averill
In chapter 11, Foyle is at Presteign's house, and the other guests arrive in extravagant modes od transportation. I think by detailing the luxurious and over the top ways that the guests arrive, it really helps to add to the mood of this part of the chapter and helps to better visualize the setting. It allows the reader to imagine what the party looks like and creates a little bit of suspense since it is portrayed as such a big deal. -Julie Carney
In chapter 14 Gully is on the new verison of the Vorga with Olivia Presteign no by choice of course. From what the text says throughout chapter 14 the Vorga is quite luxorious and glamorous and hightech. It has beautiful chairs and nice glass. Gully isnt so happy because he is on the ship in which he thinks he blew up but it is another Vorga.-Chanelle Meadows
I think their universe is very dark and depressing. They do so many things that would be considered cruel in our world. -Justin Campbell
At the end of the story, Gully is performing very quick jaunts where he travels around the world in a matter of minutes. This is a fascinating part of the story and one of my favorites. He manages to go to Shanghai and San Francisco in a matter of seconds. I can only imagine what both of these locations would look like in the time frame that the story is set in. -Cullen Schimminger
The novel stars with him aboard the spaceship Nomad which I think was hit by a rocket or another spaceship. Anyways the ship is completely destroyed except for a tool locker room in which he tries to survive. I think the mood in this setting is very hurried, because he always has to hurry to get supplies or air. In other words its kind of like high speed traffic on the interstate. -Kyle Waite
After Gully leaves the spaceship Nomad, he is pulled in by a small asteroid-colony that call themselves "The Scientific People." Most of their asteroid colony is built from salvaged parts of old spaceships and wrecks that were found in space, like the Nomad. The mood changes into a more confused, lost sort of sense right in this part, and seems almost jumbled, just like the asteroid itself. - Christian Graham
I believe the setting is way ahead of its time. If it was written in the 1950's and the author Alfred Bester is talking about space and life on different planets and living in space, his imagination is very advanced. NASA didn't even get to the moon until 1967 I believe which means he is thinking ahead of the space program. How come NASA didn't read this book, we'd have probably gotten to the moon fifteen years ealier. -Nick Kratzer
I agree with nick, it's amazing how someone could have this much detail in how the future will be many years from now when at the time this book was written, we haven't even gone to the moon yet. Yet he is able to make everything seem so realistic and believable. -Justin Campbell
The transition from The Nomad to the Scientific People changed it from a survial tale, to a tale of more mystery, and an actually feeling beings to develop.- Alex Campbell
When Gully Foyle wakes up and the people who capture him tell him he is not who he thinks. They try to trick him. the mood may change because Foyle may not belive them but, it may change how the story plays out. -Aaron Gromiller
After he got picked up by the Inner Planets navy, he acts like he doesnt remember anything, and doesnt remember how to jaunte. So they put him in this class where its going to help you jaunte better, but he never goes. Then the leader, Robin Wednesbury, finds out where hes been going, and hes not to happy about it.-Erica Keim
at the beginning of the story when he was trying to survive it was like a survival story like as he gets food, water, air. then as he went to the asteriod place, the mood changed into like a mysterious scifi story. like as we awakes and has a wife ans they try to tell him he is a part of their society.--Dominic Spinazzola
The setting definitely changes the feeling of the book. The Nomad setting almost has you wanting Gully to find a way home. But when the Scientific People's asteroid comes up, its more of you just wondering what these people and this place are all about. -Jess Filegar
When Gully is in the hospital, the mood switches to more serious as we follow Gully's obsession in tracking the Vorga. He is more down to earth in how he acts and his decisions. He becomes more of a background character as he plans his attack on Verga and the spotlight is more on Presteign.
*Kayle Giarth*
In chapter 5, it starts out talking about one of Terra's deepest trenches, Gouffre Martel, where they hospitalize people. It describes how it is completely pitch black, and since the patients can't see where they are, they can't jaunte out. Here Gully Foyle is imprisoned, and he soon learns about blue-jaunting, where patients lose their minds and try to escape, killing themselves in the process. - Christian Graham
When Gully is hospitalized they try to make him forget everything about Vorga and Nomad using different techniques. They try putting him in a plain dark room with a projector that plays videos of horifying things. All he dreams about is vorga. Then they try to create him a new life and a new name, Geoffrey Fourmyle. This fails because he sees his reflection in Saul Dagenham's glasses. His face still has Nomad tattooed on his brow and a tyger face. He knew now that everything he thought had happened, really happened to him. - Sasha Cochran
While Gully is still getting hospitalized, he starts to hear Jiz hum,sing and speak to him. As soon as she says there is a way out, Gully gets excited, and they start to talk through a Whisper Line. They end up talking about everything that has happend in their lifes until now in their lifes. She helps him with his speech, and to use his brain insted of bombs. They end up falling in love. Then Dagenham comes to visit him, to give him another chance of telling him where Nomad is, but ends up Gully hammers his head with a flagston. From there he goes to Jiz's cell, and they excape.-Erica Keim
"Baker's Freak Factory occupied a round brick three-story building that had once been the roundhouse in a suburban railway yard before jaunting ended the need for suburban railroads." The downstairs holds Baker's zoo of "anatomical curiosities, natural freaks, and monsters brought, hired, kidnapped, abducted...The middle floor of the roundhouse contained bedrooms for post-operative patients, laboratories, staff rooms, and kitchens. the top floor contained the operating theaters." This part begins with the operation to remove Gully's tattoo, then the story gets dramatic with the most intense part of the book so far. -Bryant Sell
Response(Add-on)- Im adding on to Erica Keims statement. I agree with everything but during the escape they have to go though an underground tunnel which leads to a river under the earth. They walk for a long while through stagmites and stalactites until they can hear the river. An when the find it, Jiz falls into the water and Gully jumps in after her. They are swept down the river until they come to a small tunnel that is all under water with no air spaces. They have to travel through it in order to fully escape. This small tunner leads them out of Gouffre Martel and onto fresh grass outside. It takes them a few minutes to realize this but then they are very excited and kiss each other.
-Sasha Cochran
At the beginning of chapter 8, it talks about the four mile circus, which is to take place in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Once we figure out who Fourmyle of Ceres really is, it makes sense as to why he chose Green Bay. This is where Robin Wednesbury lived in the early chapters, and it seems that Gully is choosing to reappear there to look for her. - Christian Graham
Starting in chapter 9, Foyle travels to different cities as Fourmyle to celebrate at different New Years parties. The constant change in setting might be a little confusing and fast but it adds some extra excitement and wonder to the book.
-Jess Filegar
Response: I agree with Jess on the setting of chapter nine. At first I thought it was a little confusing, but I understand why he is doing it. Gully needs to keep his cover and is trying to find the passengers of Vorga T:1339 to understand why they just passed him by in space. I also agree that from going to place to place does keep the book exciting. -Catherine Averill
Response: I also agree with jess on this topic on the setting of chapter nine. It does tend to keep the book interesting and really make you pay attention to where they are going but as Catherine said Gully does want to try his hardest to see why the Vorga passed him up at the beginning of the book. Dylan
In the beginning of chapter ten it is talking about how the ball was so beautiful and dazzling. Also And it refers that the women wore gowns based off the 1920s and I think that is interesting for this book because it is so far in the future that the people/ characters still refer to the past that is over a 100 years ago.But then in the next paragraph they are auctioning off a robot/ anroid that is a girl to make it seem more like the book.-Catherine Averill
Response: I agree with you catherine if this book is set that far into the future why would they even mention something from the 1920s and then go into an auction and sell robots and androids which arent even present today. Dylan
Response 2: I also agree with Catherine. It was a very good move on the author's part, including culture of past centuries, maybe to remind us that its still the same world, just more high tech and very changed. -Jess Filegar
In the beginning to chapter eleven I think that the mood is very risky but fancy. It is risky because Gully is taking a huge risk being at the Presteign house and trying to keep his control so that his face will not show in front of him. It is fancy because it shows how rich Pristeign is and why he does not jaunte.- Catherine Averill
In chapter 11, Foyle is at Presteign's house, and the other guests arrive in extravagant modes od transportation. I think by detailing the luxurious and over the top ways that the guests arrive, it really helps to add to the mood of this part of the chapter and helps to better visualize the setting. It allows the reader to imagine what the party looks like and creates a little bit of suspense since it is portrayed as such a big deal. -Julie Carney
In chapter 14 Gully is on the new verison of the Vorga with Olivia Presteign no by choice of course. From what the text says throughout chapter 14 the Vorga is quite luxorious and glamorous and hightech. It has beautiful chairs and nice glass. Gully isnt so happy because he is on the ship in which he thinks he blew up but it is another Vorga.-Chanelle Meadows
I think their universe is very dark and depressing. They do so many things that would be considered cruel in our world. -Justin Campbell
At the end of the story, Gully is performing very quick jaunts where he travels around the world in a matter of minutes. This is a fascinating part of the story and one of my favorites. He manages to go to Shanghai and San Francisco in a matter of seconds. I can only imagine what both of these locations would look like in the time frame that the story is set in. -Cullen Schimminger